diff --git a/wppost.tgz b/wppost.tgz
index 6dad5c117..b5758f6e6 100755
Binary files a/wppost.tgz and b/wppost.tgz differ
diff --git a/wppost/wppost.php b/wppost/wppost.php
index 5c1482e78..f07861667 100755
--- a/wppost/wppost.php
+++ b/wppost/wppost.php
@@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ function wppost_send(&$a,&$b) {
 		$post = xmlify($post);
 
 		$xml = <<< EOT
-
-<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>
+<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
 <methodCall>
   <methodName>blogger.newPost</methodName>
   <params>
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ EOT;
 
 		if($wp_blog !== 'test')
 			$x = post_url($wp_blog,$xml);
-		logger('posted to wordpress: ' . ($x) ? $x : '');
+		logger('posted to wordpress: ' . (($x) ? $x : ''), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 	}
 }